One brown bag you won’t dread: the Out to Lunch downtown concert series

OK, so enough depressing weather stuff. I mean, after all, the sun did come out for all of a whole 20 minutes during lunch.

Being that I moved here from Texas back in January, this is my first summer here in Seattle. I asked on Twitter how natives coped in summers like these, and one of the responses I got was music.

What better to cheer up the soul than some good tunes? Well, the Downtown Seattle Assocation is one step ahead of everyone with their annual Out To Lunch concert series. More than 20 concerts between now and Sept. 3 on Wednesdays and Fridays will pep up downtown workers at the lunch hour.

This Wednday you can catch L.A. ska band The English Beat at Westlake park. On Friday, you can catch locals Hey Marseilles performing at the Harbor Steps, fresh in off of their national tour.

Hey Marseilles also has a new video available for their song “Rio.” check it out:

Here’s the full list of concerts set to play, though you should probably check out the official website, as it has more details and places to get food within walking distance.